The Malayalam film Footage, directed by Saiju Sreedharan, was back in the theatres last week. Released in Malayalam last August, it is presented by Anurag Kashyap and re-released by Ranjan Singh in a Hindi dubbed version. Thanks to Kashyap and his backers--who have for decades supported Indian artistic, risk-taking films in multiple languages--the larger public can see this film in cinemas beyond Kerala as well. This is crucial, given how theatrical audiences are dwindling, preferring to wait till a film is streamed online.

The film is framed as a found-footage thriller, starring Gayathri Ashok and Vishak Nair, with the lovely Manju Warrier playing a crucial role. The story is told in flashback, of a case under investigation, involving the footage uploaded by a pair of Youtube vloggers. An unnamed, live-in couple, played by Gayathri Ashok and Vishak Nair, obsessively film themselves and life around them, and upload the videos on YouTube. They are both voyeurs, as well as offer themselves up for other voyeurs—filming mindless routines, as well as lovemaking scenes of their own, and those of the neighbours. Soon they follow and film a suspicious woman neighbour, who drives off into a distant forest, and finds themselves trapped in a situation of unexpected violence.